In locations around the world, ocean crust subducts, or slides under, other pieces of Earth's crust. The boundary where the two plates meet is called a convergent boundary. Deep trenches appear at ...

As the continents ... is a convergent boundary). This is exactly what happened when the supercontinent of Pangea broke apart 200 million years ago, forming the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and ...

Oceans filled the areas between these new sub-continents. The land masses continued ... where new crust is formed; convergent boundaries, where crust is consumed; collisional boundaries, where ...

Continents and oceans have scientific definitions that ... If a continent is caught in a convergent zone between plates, then the crust can become very thick, pushing up mountain ranges such ...